The Beginning Of The Cold War

The Beginning Of The Cold War

1718 WordsMay 15th, 20157 Pages

The year 1945 is the year that became known as the beginning of the Cold War. This war was and continues to be an ideological standoff between the ideas of Russian Communism and American Democracy and Capitalism. According to Webster’s dictionary, “Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs”. Webster’s dictionary also describes Democracy a “form of government in which a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, usually through elected representatives”. The Cold War started after the end of World War II, when the eyes of both superpowers were no longer one looking at Nazi Germany, but instead they were now looking at each other and the possibilities of the fate of the rest of the world. At the end of the World War II Germany was divided into four separate zones of occupations. Those four zones where controlled by the superpowers: Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Berlin, the capital of Germany, was located in the Soviet controlled section of Germany.

Tensions between the United States and Soviet Union had been rising since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917. The beginning of the Cold War came when the two superpowers could not come to an agreement as to how Germany would be governed in the turmoil that came after World War…

1945, beginning year of the Cold War. The development of cold war just started after the end of world War ||. The cold war was the result of conflict between two powerful country Soviet Union and United State. The war was regarding to the lead the world after the World War ||. The Soviet Union wanted to emerge its power to the world and so do the United States too. The research paper mainly focused on various reasons of opposition of two great power of the world Soviets and United States of America…

Households from the domestic scene were severely impacted by military technology and industrialization during the period of the Cold War, resulting in the ‘Do-it-yourself Security’ scheme.
At the heights of the Cold War America was paranoid about the sustained fear of nuclear war beginning at anytime between the Soviet Union. These fears lead to “Nuclear Preparedness” becoming a way of life (CliffsNotes, n.d.). Suburban communities were forced to prepare by installing bomb shelters, air raid sirens…

policies (Regan Doctrine) which concluded the Cold War contest with victory for the west. Kegley believes that by engaging Moscow in an arm race, the Soviet Union was dragged into a competition which exhausted their already fragile economy leading them initially into retrenchment and ultimately out of the contest. (13) Peterson notes the argument of Patrick Glynn that Gorbachev’s radical reforms of perestroika and glasnost which accelerated the demise of Cold War were actually in response to President Regan’s…

the Allies that took down the Third Reich ended with an agreement to divide what is left of Germany after World War Two. The Western half to be under control by the United States of America, Great Britain and France while the East half, including half of Berlin, belonging to the Soviet Union. This separation between two super powers is now known as the precursor to the cold war, a war with no tanks, planes, or solders. This would be an atomic waiting game, a deadly gamble, and the two sides calling…

result of the end of WWII was the division of Germany into four zones controlled by Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, and the United States. Lack of agreement and compromise with the Soviet Union about the agreement of Germany led to the beginning of the Cold War. U.S and USSR became focus in an Arms Race to have the greatest nuclear capability. This lead to the Space Race where another heated competition to whoever get to the moon first and to have the best space technology. Focusing to the whole…

The Cold War wasn’t a physical war fought between two opposing sides. Instead it was the name given to the relationship between Eastern European countries and Western European countries along with the USA. This “Cold” relationship between the USA and the USSR commenced and developed after World War Two. Although, naturally, one would expect these two allies during the war to have a strong, pleasant relationship with one another, this was not the case; there was a growing rivalry between the two instead…

Many individuals would remember the Cold War (1945-1991) to be “a state of political hostility between countries, characterized by threats and propaganda”. An inevitable war in which questioned the extent of power politics and the survival of humankind. Both the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic and the United States committed to a war which disregarded direct military action and pursued economic and political actions in order to achieve the objective. The Arms Race, a significant event in this…

The United States and the Beginning of the Cold War
a) There were three cracks evident between the US-Soviet relationship.
America and Russia argued about the opening of a second front against
Germany. Stalin’s plans where that America and Britain invade western
Europe so the Russian Red Army gets stronger and pressure on them is
relieved. Roosevelt promised a second front by the time of 1942, but
the delay of plans for an Anglo-American invasion of German-occupied…

Cold War
In 1945 after WWII the United States and the Soviet Union became divided as far as how they felt Europe should be divided. This began the period of conflict called the Cold War. The Cold War was “a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare”(dictionary.com).The USSR believed in communism, where the US believed in democracy. The US was between two potentially hostile nations, the US designed a Buffer…

My research question is aimed at showing how the cold war led to establishment of supranational institutions and how realism as a level of analysis failed to predict the events that led to the end of the cold war?
How the Cold War Led To Supranational Influences
From the beginning of the Cold War there have been many tensions between the East and West superpowers. The proposal of the Marshal Plan of June 1947 put the integration of Europe on the map for international relations. The creators of…